Unintended Consequences wrote:
The second[a] shutdown of the United States federal government in 2018, which has continued into January 2019, began at midnight EST on Saturday, December 22. It occurred when the United States Congress and President Donald Trump could not agree on an appropriations bill to fund the operations of the federal government for the 2019 fiscal year, or a temporary continuing resolution that would extend the deadline for passing a bill.
TRUMP HAD AGREED TO SIGN THIS BILL BUT CHANGED HIS MIND AND WOULD NOT SIGN IT. At that point he should have vetoed and sent it back to Congress. That is when he decided to shut down the government.
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